A group of festival goers calling themselves the Bunk Police are on a mission to test the purity of some of the illegal drugs being sold on shakedown streets of music festivals around the country. They’re finding that more often than not, things are not what they seem.

Portugal decriminalized all recreational drugs in 2001. The country’s experiment turned out to be a great success. This July 1 BBC report on the results indicates that while drug abuse remains a problem for some Portuguese, the country’s decision to emphasize treatment over prosecution has led to declining drug use in addition to emptier prisons….

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